Improvement in corn-planters



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@time @Mira JOHN 'ELBERTSON OF KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI.

Letters PatentNo. 85,652, dated Janna/r11; 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Thcheduie referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama To all whom 'it may conce/m Be it known that I, JOHN ELBERTsoN, of Kirksville, in the eounty of Adair, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the oonstruotion and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and gures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1, of the drawings, is a representation of a sectional viewvof my improvement, and

Figure 2 is an externaln'ew thereof.

My invention relatesI to that class of corn-planters in which the seed is planted by hand, the machine being used like a pedestrians c ane.

The chief obieot of my invention is to provide a more perfect bottom for the hopper vof a hand cornlplanter than has heretofore been known, and it is designed as an improvement upou'my corn-planter, patented May 12, 1868.

The letter a,vof the drawings, represents the wooden bottom of the hopper, and

Letter b is the opening therein.

Letter e is a plate, of metal or other suitable material, adjusted andv curved in the manner shown, and

Letter dis a spring, adapted thereto, as represented.

The office of this plate is to out-off from the seed that falls into the seed-box in the cylinder all kernels stitute for the brushheretofore in use, for the purposes aforesaid.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The plate e and spring d, when constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes herein,

specified. Y

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN ELBERTSON.

Witnesses:

. J .s C. SMITH,

Jnss L. GONNER. 

